Better, you can ask all VSS aware apps to freeze their own I/O to make a crash consistent backup. This is how all non-brain damaged backup software works on Windows and how array based snapshots for all but the cheapest of disk arrays works.
Other than embedded devices that will only talk FAT/FAT32/exFAT, the best cross platform filesystem is actually UDF, on all modern OS's it's supported including write. It supports greater than 2GB files and large disks (2TB with 512B clusters, 8TB with 2K clusters though the current standard doesn't list 4KB clusters which is an issue for the newest generation of HDD's).
If you don't want the OS images to go down you do. It's great for when there's reduced load but not zero load, VMWare vSphere will vmotion (live migrate) the VM's to another host(s) and then when shutdown host powers up will redistribute the load back.
Uh, they start at $5k and the most I could get one to cost without going to 1TB of ram (64* mega expensive 16GB DIMM's) was $87k which is admittedly kinda close to 6 figure).
With lights out management VMWare will even do it for you automagically, turn down hosts when demand is low and (now with 4.1) spin them back up in the morning/before batch run time in anticipation of higher load (it will do it on it's own but it's a bit slow).
They do, during a summer day our 480V nominal circuit gets as high as 502V but is normally in the 490-495V range as the power company tries to push enough power to keep aircon going.
Brother HL2170W here, haven't had it long enough to know what the long term reliability will be but it's been on the market a few years and they generally seem to do well. Wireless laser for $99, 2600 sheet 3rd party carts for as cheap as $15, OEM's for ~$40. The Brother drums are stupid expensive at $60-70 but the third party are only ~$30 (why would you replace a $70 drum on a $99 printer?). It's small enough to fit on top of a 3 disk cd player but prints at 15-20ppm and wakes up from completely off in under 60 seconds. Definitely the best value I've gotten from a new printer, best was the pile of free LJ4's I got from a bank that was closing, my dad's small business still uses one but they are too large and too slow from a cold start and I love the wireless in my new printer (no more running to the basement for prints).
LJ4250's have been pretty damn reliable for us, probably more so than any printer HP made since the LJ4, and they are freaking fast little buggers. They're not cheap at ~$1,000 to start, but for a business they are fairly negligible. I wish HP's scanner and finishers didn't suck so badly so we could get rid of our Xerox MFP's.
Toner is CHEAP, third party carts for my Brother are.35c/page, even the Brother carts are only.8c/page, yes that's correct they are less than a penny a page, you'll spend more on the paper than the toner =) Bigger printers are even cheaper per page, but obviously come with a bigger acquisition cost and the cost of a single consumable replacement is more than my printer with 2,500 page starter cart ($99).
Unless you do a crazy amount of greater than 8x10 prints you're probably better off with a cheap laser and Walgreens/Costco/etc with a real mini-lab, better quality than any sub $5,000 printer, prints will last a lifetime or more, and it's cheaper per print when you consider all costs.
Buttons like that need to have a pin to be pulled first, glass to break, something.
Yep, ours has a Molly cover and then a ring behind the button on the plunger that keeps it from being pressed until you break a row of beads and pull the ring out.
Actual Cisco stuff (as opposed to Linksys gear with a Cisco badge) will discover a loop in an adjacent switch and shutdown the uplink port. Of course if you haven't turned on sw portfast the switch will do spanning tree which will keep the port from ever coming up, so yes better switches will definitely solve the problem. I had a network where the training room and C* row were serviced from the same 48 port switch, our very ADD CEO was in the training room trying to ignore a boring meeting and plugged two adjacent popups into each other, took down C* row but the upstream switch caught the problem so the rest of the company kept working. CFO threw a fit until the root cause was determined and then it was solved by putting a warning on the ports in the training room =)
Civil twilight here in NE Ohio, USA is 9:01PM, astronomical twilight isn't until 10:17PM. This should be a great year for the Perseids since it is an almost new moon. Unfortunately where I will be tomorrow night it looks like a storm is going to roll in right around dark =( However my kids should get to see them.
What makes this any more secure than Bitlocker or other similar whole drive/partition encryption with a passphrase?
There are all sorts of attacks, both known and theoretical against TPM chips that a government level organization can carry out to recover the key. Or to brute force a relatively weak passphrase (most passphrases have significantly less randomness than 256bits). A pseudo-random key which is wiped at power off is really a LOT more secure than something like bitlocker, but it's also a lot less useful for a general purpose solution.
Doesn't matter, if it's doing AES256 correctly the universe will die of heat death before you can brute force the key. Unless someone comes up with a significant attack against AES256 I wouldn't worry about the recoverability of the encrypted data.
All you have to do to fix the situation is to internalize the negative externalities in the cost of energy and the free market will very quickly and efficiently close down the most inefficient users. The problem in the US is there is no political will to actually do that, especially in the middle of the most severe recession in several generations. Ultimately a free market with sufficient oversight to account for inbalances like this is the most efficient real world economic system we have yet devised.
The explanation of saving costs is also bunk, Verizon is a Tier 1 ISP and hence does not pay for transit. Since they still have to carry the same amount of data through their internal network this isn't saving them anything unless Google is actually net bringing the data closer to the user and hence causing fewer gigabit-miles of fiber to be needed.
I'm salaried TYVM and get all my projects done on time even if it means working 12-16 hours a day like I have been for the last 4 weeks. Vacation next week can't get here soon enough.
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Better, you can ask all VSS aware apps to freeze their own I/O to make a crash consistent backup. This is how all non-brain damaged backup software works on Windows and how array based snapshots for all but the cheapest of disk arrays works.
Other than embedded devices that will only talk FAT/FAT32/exFAT, the best cross platform filesystem is actually UDF, on all modern OS's it's supported including write. It supports greater than 2GB files and large disks (2TB with 512B clusters, 8TB with 2K clusters though the current standard doesn't list 4KB clusters which is an issue for the newest generation of HDD's).
Pretty much, it absorbed the best parts (except SMIT) from all the Unix OS's from the 80's and 90's.
If you don't want the OS images to go down you do. It's great for when there's reduced load but not zero load, VMWare vSphere will vmotion (live migrate) the VM's to another host(s) and then when shutdown host powers up will redistribute the load back.
Uh, they start at $5k and the most I could get one to cost without going to 1TB of ram (64* mega expensive 16GB DIMM's) was $87k which is admittedly kinda close to 6 figure).
Amazon's had rental as well since 2006, watch within 30 days of purchase, available for 24 hours.
Wouldn't some low power DIMM's in a machine with a bunch of GPU's be the best for pure FLOPS/Watt?
There's also 208V which is across two lines in a 3 phase system.
With lights out management VMWare will even do it for you automagically, turn down hosts when demand is low and (now with 4.1) spin them back up in the morning/before batch run time in anticipation of higher load (it will do it on it's own but it's a bit slow).
They do, during a summer day our 480V nominal circuit gets as high as 502V but is normally in the 490-495V range as the power company tries to push enough power to keep aircon going.
You've been able to buy DRM'd episodes from Amazon since 2006, this is only news because it's itunes.
Brother HL2170W here, haven't had it long enough to know what the long term reliability will be but it's been on the market a few years and they generally seem to do well. Wireless laser for $99, 2600 sheet 3rd party carts for as cheap as $15, OEM's for ~$40. The Brother drums are stupid expensive at $60-70 but the third party are only ~$30 (why would you replace a $70 drum on a $99 printer?). It's small enough to fit on top of a 3 disk cd player but prints at 15-20ppm and wakes up from completely off in under 60 seconds. Definitely the best value I've gotten from a new printer, best was the pile of free LJ4's I got from a bank that was closing, my dad's small business still uses one but they are too large and too slow from a cold start and I love the wireless in my new printer (no more running to the basement for prints).
LJ4250's have been pretty damn reliable for us, probably more so than any printer HP made since the LJ4, and they are freaking fast little buggers. They're not cheap at ~$1,000 to start, but for a business they are fairly negligible. I wish HP's scanner and finishers didn't suck so badly so we could get rid of our Xerox MFP's.
Toner is CHEAP, third party carts for my Brother are .35c/page, even the Brother carts are only .8c/page, yes that's correct they are less than a penny a page, you'll spend more on the paper than the toner =) Bigger printers are even cheaper per page, but obviously come with a bigger acquisition cost and the cost of a single consumable replacement is more than my printer with 2,500 page starter cart ($99).
Unless you do a crazy amount of greater than 8x10 prints you're probably better off with a cheap laser and Walgreens/Costco/etc with a real mini-lab, better quality than any sub $5,000 printer, prints will last a lifetime or more, and it's cheaper per print when you consider all costs.
Buttons like that need to have a pin to be pulled first, glass to break, something.
Yep, ours has a Molly cover and then a ring behind the button on the plunger that keeps it from being pressed until you break a row of beads and pull the ring out.
Wait, this was a 700 person company and they had single power source servers? Yeah the root cause of that one was not your cape =)
Actual Cisco stuff (as opposed to Linksys gear with a Cisco badge) will discover a loop in an adjacent switch and shutdown the uplink port. Of course if you haven't turned on sw portfast the switch will do spanning tree which will keep the port from ever coming up, so yes better switches will definitely solve the problem. I had a network where the training room and C* row were serviced from the same 48 port switch, our very ADD CEO was in the training room trying to ignore a boring meeting and plugged two adjacent popups into each other, took down C* row but the upstream switch caught the problem so the rest of the company kept working. CFO threw a fit until the root cause was determined and then it was solved by putting a warning on the ports in the training room =)
Civil twilight here in NE Ohio, USA is 9:01PM, astronomical twilight isn't until 10:17PM. This should be a great year for the Perseids since it is an almost new moon. Unfortunately where I will be tomorrow night it looks like a storm is going to roll in right around dark =( However my kids should get to see them.
What makes this any more secure than Bitlocker or other similar whole drive/partition encryption with a passphrase?
There are all sorts of attacks, both known and theoretical against TPM chips that a government level organization can carry out to recover the key. Or to brute force a relatively weak passphrase (most passphrases have significantly less randomness than 256bits). A pseudo-random key which is wiped at power off is really a LOT more secure than something like bitlocker, but it's also a lot less useful for a general purpose solution.
Doesn't matter, if it's doing AES256 correctly the universe will die of heat death before you can brute force the key. Unless someone comes up with a significant attack against AES256 I wouldn't worry about the recoverability of the encrypted data.
All you have to do to fix the situation is to internalize the negative externalities in the cost of energy and the free market will very quickly and efficiently close down the most inefficient users. The problem in the US is there is no political will to actually do that, especially in the middle of the most severe recession in several generations. Ultimately a free market with sufficient oversight to account for inbalances like this is the most efficient real world economic system we have yet devised.
The explanation of saving costs is also bunk, Verizon is a Tier 1 ISP and hence does not pay for transit. Since they still have to carry the same amount of data through their internal network this isn't saving them anything unless Google is actually net bringing the data closer to the user and hence causing fewer gigabit-miles of fiber to be needed.
I'm salaried TYVM and get all my projects done on time even if it means working 12-16 hours a day like I have been for the last 4 weeks. Vacation next week can't get here soon enough.
This only applies if you have been informed of such presumed ownership and have signed off as being reminded of that fact on a regular basis (generally annually).